Niantic Spatial, Inc.
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Niantic Spatial is the geospatial AI company spun out of Niantic in May 2025, retaining Scaniverse (the leading mobile Gaussian Splatting capture app), the Visual Positioning System, and the Large Geospatial Model built on 30B+ posed images.
Location
San Francisco, CA
Size
Total raised
$250M (Spin-out funding, 2025)
Hiring?
Yes
Niantic Spatial, Inc. was formed in May 2025 when Niantic sold its consumer games portfolio to Scopely and refocused the remaining company on geospatial AI. The spin-out was capitalized with $250M — $200M from Niantic's balance sheet plus a $50M strategic investment from Scopely.
The company's flagship Gaussian Splatting product is Scaniverse, a mobile capture app that has become one of the most widely used consumer tools for splat capture on iOS and Android. Niantic Spatial also contributed the SPZ compression format (MIT-licensed) that underpins the Khronos KHR_gaussian_splatting_compression_spz extension, and is building toward a Large Geospatial Model trained on 30+ billion posed images.
In March 2026, founder John Hanke transitioned from CEO to Executive Chairman; Inhi Cho Suh became CEO. Niantic Spatial also joined the Khronos Group to help drive open standards for Gaussian Splatting and geospatial 3D.
Leadership
Inhi Cho Suh
CEO
John Hanke
Founder & Executive Chairman
Brian McClendon
Co-Founder & CTO
Thomas Gewecke
COO